A run aborted, a rabbit cradled
It’s 6:30AM, but I’ve already been up for over two hours. I went out early to do an eleven-mile loop through the hills of Pasadena and La Canada. While running near the Rose Bowl, before dawn, I came...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger gets it right on oil: another reason to praise the recall
For all his many faults, I want to say again that five years on, Arnold Schwarzenegger has turned out to be a much better governor than many of us feared. In some not intangible ways, the former movie...
View ArticleOf pears and plants, rebellion and depravity: a response to Augustine and...
Fuller President Richard Mouw is perhaps the one modern theologian who can make Five Point Calvinism seem not only winsome, but reasonable. The first “point” of Calvinism is the doctrine of total...
View ArticleLoving the whole earth, loving the single place: a long response to Gregory...
I normally like the perspective that L.A. Times’ columnist Gregory Rodriguez takes. But he wrote an op-ed eleven days ago that really irked me: Rootless to a Fault. Here’s a portion of it: Here in the...
View ArticlePrimates on limits
The 2008 Lambeth Conference in England enters its final week, and it is still unclear whether the worldwide Anglican Communion will hold together. I blogged my thoughts ten days ago. Many sites are...
View ArticleThe Best and the Good Enough: Abolitionists, Welfarists and the agonizing...
The initial polling looks good for Proposition 2 here in California, the Humane Farms Initiative. Backed by a coalition of animal welfare, veterinary, and family farming groups, the proposition is...
View ArticleObama’s Green Team: Grade B so far, but still incomplete
President-elect Obama has rounded out his cabinet with the announcement this week of appointees for the departments of the Interior, Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency. I’m not a...
View Article30 days in, and hope is very much alive
Barack Obama has been president for thirty days, and to believe some reports, has proved a disappointment to liberals. Though I am far from a full-fledged political junkie any more (in high school, I...
View Article“We must unhumanize our views a little”: on Kotkin, California, and the...
A deeply misguided story in this week’s Newsweek magazine about my state: Death of the Dream, written by Joel Kotkin. For decades, California has epitomized America’s economic strengths: technological...
View ArticleBabies, family planning, environmental stewardship and the needs of the...
Regular readers know that I tend to discourage my conservative commenters from derailing threads by questioning the very suppositions on which this blog is based. This is a feminist blog, for example,...
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